of Dr. maty’s lajl Illnefs y 8cc. 613 
fo complete an obftrudtion, as to occafion the death of the 
patient ; of which I once faw a very deplorable inftance. 
The ulcerated inteftine is a difeafe generally, as in the 
cafe before us, flow in its progrefs, but certainly fatal. 
An accumulation of acrid matter, confined air, folid in- 
gefta, in ftiort any thing capable of ftretching, irritating, 
or hardening the gut, will fpread and increafe the difeafe. 
The fafciculated appearance in the re£tum is what I 
have once met with in a very found gut, where the vil- 
lous coat was not in the leafl injured; it is therefore 
fometimes an original conformation, but apparently un- 
neceflary, as the gut, we may prefume, would perform 
its office much more agreeably without it. 
H. WATSON* 
